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Article: Effects of salinity on sperm motility, fertilization, and development in the Pacific herring, Clupea pallasi.
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- The Biological Bulletin
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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Introduction
Pacific herring, Clupea pallasi, inhabit the continental shelves of the North Pacific Ocean from California to Korea, and the White and Kara Sea regions of the Arctic Ocean (Dushkina, 1973; Grant, 1984; Grant and Utter, 1984). Once considered a subspecies of the Atlantic herring (C. harengus), as currently is the Baltic herring, C. pallasi is now recognized to be different behaviorally, morphologically, and genetically from C. harengus (Grant, 1984; Grant and Utter, 1984; Haegele and Schweigert, 1985). Pacific herring spawn during the winter and spring, predominantly in protected waters of bays and estuaries. Males release sperm into the water while ...